It's Aberlour's ever-popular A'Bunadh single malt Scotch whisky! Each batch of this single malt is matured entirely in Spanish oloroso sherry butts, bestowing huge helpings of dried fruit and festive spice notes to the whisky, after which it's bottled up at full-on cask strength with no chill-filtration.
Zesty notes of chocolate-coated orange wheels join sticky ginger loaf and sherried fruits.
Plump sultanas, prunes, cakey spice, and marmalade, with biscuity malt and toffee apple in tow.
Sweet spices and rich oak linger.
One of worst batches
Awesome!
The batch 47 seems harsher both on the palate and the nose. And it needs more water. Shame the Batch 46 is sold out.
I perfectly agree with Highlander; this one *needs* a bit of water to open it up. Neat, it tastes like everclear with a cherry pixie stick mixed in. With water, well I still get mostly cherry, but it's no longer *concentrated* cherry pucker but rather warm cherry effervescence on top of a nice sherried dram. <br/><br/> Oddly in reference to another previous review, I also love and prefer the ardberg corry neat, and it's my favorite whisky so far in fact. But my bottle of a'Bunadh was greatly enjoyable. Note the water does take some time to mix; it tastes better 5 min after adding the water vs. immediately. (Note to self, try everclear with a cherry pixie stick and add some water).
Tried it for the first time Saturday, it was great. I had added a couple of drops of water as instructed on the label to open up the flavours. It was go good, I went and bought another bottle.
